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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1513940, member: 112"]Understand this, there are many different kinds of spots. Carbon spots are just one of them. Yeah, it's a name that people throw around all the time. And many times they apply that name to just any spot when it is no more a carbon spot than it is an elephant. Sure, some spots can be removed. But it depends on what caused the spot. Carbon spots are impurities in the metal. You can't remove those. Many other spots are caused by just something on the metal. And it can be almost anything. A tiny speck of cardboard dust from a 2x2 or an album, so small you can't even see it, if left on the coin over time will decay. Everything decays with time. And as that speck of dust decays it will discolor and make a spot on the coin. And over time that spot will grow, it will spread out until it is big enough to see with the naked eye. It will make a spot. Well, anything can make a spot. It can be a drop of saliva from your breath, a tiny speck of any organic material. Normal household dust is composed of about 98% dead human skin, so it can be that too. It can be literally anything. And some spots can be removed from coins, others cannot. Like I said, even if you can get the spot off, many times you will still be able to see where the spot was. Then all you have is another kind of spot on your coin, only this time it is pale instead of dark.[/QUOTE]